From: Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: "Krishnaswami, Neel" <neelk@cswcasa.com>
Cc: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cryptokit: cryptographic library for OCaml
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:12:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020405171222.A21875@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1E4D3274D57D411BE8400D0B783FF32A8D706@exchange1.cswv.com>; from neelk@cswcasa.com on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0500
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Krishnaswami, Neel wrote:
> Sven [mailto:luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr] wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:02:14PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > > My amateur, unfocused interest for applications of
> > > cryptography led me to implement the Cryptokit library of
> > > cryptographic primitives for OCaml, providing:
> >
> > Mmm, what are the legal restriction related to this ? Is it legal to
> > distribute it in france (legislation may have changed since
> > last i checked about such things a few years ago) ? Is it legal to
> > distribute it from an US based server (i think yes, but you would
> > need to declare the software to the NSA or something such).
>
> I don't know about the details of French law, but in the USA
> there is no need for any review of open-source cryptography
> software, whether in source or binary format.
>
> See: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/EncryptionRuleOct2K.html
There is no restriction on exportation, but you need to fill a declaration or
something with the NSA (i think) about it.
I followed from far all the discution about it when debian decided to move the
crypto stuff from its non-us servers into the main archive which is us based,
so it would be no problem for me to package it as a debian package. There may
be french issues though, since it is distributed from inria's web site. But
then i think, due to the Bank's pressions on the governement, that most of
those restriction were lifted a year or so ago, not sure though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-05 15:01 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-04-05 15:12 ` Sven [this message]
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2002-04-05 14:02 Xavier Leroy
2002-04-05 14:29 ` Sven
2002-04-05 14:18 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-04-05 15:29 ` Sven
2002-04-05 15:10 ` Julian Assange
2002-04-05 19:36 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-04-07 17:17 ` Julian Assange
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